Similar words, different meanings: a natural semantic metalanguage exploration of cultural differences

Anna Wierbicka and other writers of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (henceforth NSM) often argue that anthropologists and psychologists, particularly Western ones, are wrong for applying concepts like mind, anger and depression to foreign cultures because these cultures do not have words with similar...

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Main Author: Hazidi Bin Haji Abdul Hamid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit UKM 2002
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/719/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/719/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/719/1/GemaVol1.1.2001No1.pdf